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Growing up in the 70's

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morethanpotatoprints · 01/02/2014 21:34

I bet there's been one of these before but who remembers stuff about the 70's, looking back to me it was all a bit weird.

So some of my memories.

Mary Mungo and midge, the music in the lift. my orange space hopper, gridsy marbles and clackers.
Dehydrated potato, free milk you had to drink at school.
Playing out from after breakfast until dark or tea.

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PedantMarina · 02/02/2014 17:17

Those "landscape printed" silk shirts (or polyester versions if you were me). There is actually a picture somewhere despite my best efforts to find and destroy them all of me in a blue one, with brown plaid trousers.

Being all excited that we finally had a colour television.

Being really annoyed that the local cinema had Jaws running for a bazillion weeks, giving me no chance to see anything else.

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MadIsTheNewNormal · 02/02/2014 17:09

I really want to 'like' your last post Lagoon Grin

emotionsecho · 02/02/2014 17:09

Was Izal the paper that had "Now wash your hands" printed on it?
Parents had pink nylon sheets you get friction burns off them. We had brushed cotton candy stripe ones which were lovely and warm, I'd quite like some of them now.
Putting a coin on top of the needle on a record player to stop it jumping over the scratches.

thornrose · 02/02/2014 17:05

I went to Butlins in the 70's. It was my first ever holiday and it was amazing Grin They actually did that "bing, bong" sound over the tannoy, like on Hi de Hi!

My mum confessed years later she absolutely hated every second of it.Grin

Lagoonablue · 02/02/2014 17:00

Jackie posters that came in 3 parts so you got David Cassidy's legs one week, torso the next and his head the next!

emotionsecho · 02/02/2014 17:00

Cream cakes for tea on Saturday
Having to book an international call
David Bowie in Gene Genie mode

Lagoonablue · 02/02/2014 16:59

Spirograph. I loved mine.

Lagoonablue · 02/02/2014 16:58

I was 7 in 1970 and recall most of these things. When I was 10 in 73 I remember wearing high waisted wide flares. No name trainers and some kind of army looking overshirt from the market. I had a Pageboy haircut.

Sandwich spread. I still like it.

Angel delight, carnation milk, Blueband marg, primula cheese in a tube, vesta meals, ski yoghurt.

The mobile shop, the mobile pop man, the mobile library FFS! Being out on our bikes all day on summer, no parents were bothered.

Identity bracelets engraved, chains with initials on them round on necks, scoop neck cap sleeve t shirts, midi skirts, platforms, northern soul era with star jumpers and very wide pants.

Happy days. Great thread.

Diagonally · 02/02/2014 16:52

Izal

What was the point of it? Grin

Diagonally · 02/02/2014 16:52

Thanks Pan Smile

thornrose · 02/02/2014 16:48

OOh yes, sounds good! I don't often get nostalgic but this has been fun.

MadIsTheNewNormal · 02/02/2014 16:47

Gosh, so may blasts from the past.

Brentford Nylons (for sheets that would stick to the rough skin on your feet and make you sweat like buggery)

That Izal loo paper that was all hard and slippery and about as absorbent as Amy Childs in a Teflon coated mini dress.

emotionsecho · 02/02/2014 16:45

Ooh I'd love a pack of Old English Spangles now!
Anyone remember Peaches and Cream bath and body stuff from Avon (I think)?
Feather cuts, worst hairstyle I ever had.
Matching shirts and ties in lurid colours and patterns, my db had a very fetching orange combo.
I had the hairdryer with a bag for your head, the ad showed a lady wandering around having a cup of tea, however, you could only walk as far as the lead would go, I mistakenly thought you could walk miles with it.
Deely boppers, just why?!!
Typing on waxy stencil paper after removing the typewriter ribbon so the keys cut into the stencil, having to make corrections with some gunky pink stuff.
Typing one original and three copies with carbon paper and the trauma of correcting mistakes!

Darkesteyes · 02/02/2014 16:43

thornrose i think you and a lot of us on this thread would be interested in this.

www.amazon.co.uk/Things-Aint-What-They-Used/dp/0751542067/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391359125&sr=8-1-fkmr2&keywords=phil+glenister+things

Darkesteyes · 02/02/2014 16:37

I had a Sindy doll. I also had the Sindy writing bureau and the Sindy four poster bed.

One Christmas i got the Sindy horse and carriage....which i still have in its box ..it never got played with.

Things we didnt have in the 70s.
size zero
reality tv
Obsessive celebrity culture.

We have come forwards in some ways but gone backwards in others.

AllMimsyWereTheBorogroves · 02/02/2014 16:29

Do people with cars still go for a run on Sunday afternoon? We did, often, to relieve the immense tedium of Sunday afternoons.

I think the brown spangles might be the mysterious Old English flavour.

thornrose · 02/02/2014 16:28

I saw a 70's scrapbook the other day. Just pages and pages of pictures of food, sweets, fashions etc. I want to buy it, it was amazing!

BreconBeBuggered · 02/02/2014 16:23

Little cone-shaped paper bags when you bought 2 ounces of loose sweets, and bigger square bags for the affluent types who could afford a quarter. A schoolfriend of mine was given 20p for sweets every single day. We thought her parents must be millionaires.

MadIsTheNewNormal · 02/02/2014 16:13

Nancy Kominski and Tony Hart.

The drought of 76 and the Montreal olympics of 77.

Spangles, Pacers and Texan bars.

Jackie, Blue Jeans, My Guy.

taping the top 20 off the radio in my bedroom on a Sunday afternoon when nothing was open and we wanted to kill ourselves from the boredom.

Youth clubs.

Gypsy tops and boob tubes.

Fine Fare and Robert Greg.

Chelsea Girl, Snob, and Richard Shops.

Chivetalking · 02/02/2014 16:09

Squirmles and Slinkies

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morethanpotatoprints · 02/02/2014 16:07

Didn't all the old 70's cars have owners who tackled a lot of the smaller jobs themselves, along with their Haines Manual.

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morethanpotatoprints · 02/02/2014 16:05

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I didn't like the fizzy orange ones, the ones I like were brown and called traditional flavour, not sure if they were cola or liquorice, aniseed or something. They were really nice. Grin

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Only1scoop · 02/02/2014 16:00
Grin Also remember having to 'top up' my battery in the boot of my mini with water....
Pan · 02/02/2014 15:59

Any 70's mechanic reading will know that to adjust the points you had to slip a feeler gauge between the points. S'true.
Off out for a run now.

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